Illegal Immigration Is Bad For Business

illegal immigration is bad for business. A campaign of Legal Citizens of America. legalcitizens.org

Legal Citizens believe that employing illegal labor is BAD for business Here are Ten Reasons Why: 1. Illegals working in many industries - not just those who do cleaning jobs will work for far less than legal citizens, causing unfair competition for businesses that DO obey the law and employ only legal citizens. 2. Illegal immigrants are often paid under the table. This is tax fraud and it costs the U.S. Taxpayer billions each year - billions that are made up for in higher taxes for everyone, including corporate taxes. 3. Illegal immigrants are often not fully trained in U.S. safety standards, and frequently do not understand enough English to read printed safety regulations, causing a hazardous work environment. 4. Legal immigrants and the working poor are often most hurt by illegal immigrants who drive down wages in traditional low-wage jobs, which may cause a spike in increased need for welfare and unemployment benefits. 5. A vast majority of illegal immigrants do not pay any state or Federal income taxes. This has put a strain on local, state and Federal governments and has caused business taxes to rise to help maintain infrastructure such as hospitals, roads and schools. 6. Illegal immigrants are unlikely to report theft, corruption, harassment and abuse by other employees, because they fear being turned into immigration authorities, causing unsafe or illegal practices in your workplace to go unreported. Being unaware of these abuses can significantly increase your legal liability. 7. Illegal immigrants may be deported or otherwise return home at any time. That could cost business owners like you all the time and investment you put into training those workers.

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8. A Federal raid on your business by immigration authorities that subsequently discovers illegal employees, and the resulting negative publicity that would cause to you and your business, isn’t worth it. 9. Hiring illegal immigrants sends a signal to your employees and customers that you condone cheating and support the exploitation of other human beings. Do you? 10. Obeying Federal laws regarding hiring only legal citizens is the ethical thing to do. Please do not hire - and consider firing - immigrants who are in this country illegally.

Five Suggested Actions for Legal Citizen Activists: 1. Copy the first page of this campaign pamphlet and give it to local business owners. 2. Urge local business owners who have hired illegals in the past to "come clean" and fire illegal immigrants. 3. Tell businesses and corporations that employ illegal labor that you will BOYCOTT their goods and services until they cease doing so. 4. Write to your Representative in Congress and Senators and DEMAND that they start helping businesses by: A. Tripling fines on businesses that employ illegal aliens in violation of U.S. law. as a disincentive to businesses thinking of hiring them in the future B. Initiating a full-scale, immediate crackdown on businesses who employ illegals. C. Building an effective border system that keeps out those who wish to sneak into the U.S. illegally D. Create an effective tracking system that allows LEGAL migrants into the country and allows businesses to easily identify them as such Copyright 2007 Legal Citizens of America. Legalcitizens.org. Free to copy and distribute.

5. Tell all your friends, family, co-workers or fellow students to go to legalcitizens.org and join the campaign against hiring illegal immigrants.

Copyright 2007 Legal Citizens of America. Legalcitizens.org. Free to copy and distribute.